Improved clothes-wringer



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

REUBEN GIISOIT, OF SHELBY, OHIO.

IMPROVED CLOTHES-WRINGER.

Spccification fo11ning art 0f Letters Patent N0. 44,796, dated October 25, 1864.

T0 all whom z't may c0ncern:

Be it known that I, R. GIPSON, of Shelby, in the oountj of Richland 2u1 1 State 0f Ohio, hzwe invented certztin new am]. useful Improvements in ClothesNVringers; and I do hereby dee1are that the following is a fu1l and oomplete desoripti'on of the constrnction and Operation 0f the same, reference being had to the accompanying drztwings, making a part of this speoifieation, in Whioh Fignre 1 is a front view 0f the wringer, 0f which Fig. 2 is an end view.

Like letters of reference denote like parts in the two views.

My improvement relates to a olothes-wringer, in which the rollers are turned by means '0f compensating-gearing in such a manner as to relieve the strain up0n the rollers, so thattherubber ro1ls Will not strip or turn upon the shafts.

In the figures, A is the fra.n1e of tl1e wringer; B and O, the rollers, the shafts of whioh rest and turn in the slots of the fra1ne with gnides 0r boxes a above then1 and the piece D across, on Whi0h rests the spring S,tlxat 21(L justs the pressure upon the rollers b\ 1neans of the thumb-sorew E.

On the end of the shaft 0f the lower ro1ler, O, to wl1ioh the orank F is connected, is secured t gear, G. (Seen in Fig. 2.) ()n each side 0f this gear, and adjustable on the shafr, are reotangular arn1s H H, that support intermediate gears, I and J. At the upper end of these arms, 011 the spindle 01" shaft m 0f the gear J, are the arms L L, that form ajoint in oonnection With the arxns H II. The other ends 0f the arms L L are hnng upon the shaft of the roher B, 011 eaoh side 0f the gear K, which is seoured t0 the shaft. 'lhe gear K works in the iutermediate gear J, and the gear G 011 the lower shaft in the intermediate gear I, and as the gears I und J work in each other the gears are all so oonneeted that they Will operate 0ne another by the revolution ot' the crank-shaft turning both the rollers B and C; und from the manner of their connection they are perfeotly adjustable t0 any position 0f the rollers, ELIlCI can in 110 way be put out of gear a-s their position is changed, for, as the roller B is elevated by pressure between the rollers and the gear K raised up, a.s indie2tted by the dotted 1ines K in Fig. 2, the end L 0f the arn1s L moving in a vertical direction, and as the other end is 0n the shaft 0f the gear J, the gear J must be raised and drawn towa.rd the gear K, as indicated by the d0tted line J, the arms L L being adjustable 011 both shafts. 'lhis p0sition 0f the upper gears raises the gear I, as indicated at I, the arms H H being adjusted aocordingly upon the cr-ank sbaf't. Thus the gears are all kept in the same relative position in ooutact With eaoh orher, as the gear K is raised mo1e or less by pressure between the rollers, operating with the same facility in every position to whieh they n1a.y be adjusted b y the action 0f the rollers.

In all wringers withont gearing one 0f the the rollers is turned by tl1e erank and the other entirely by friction. The tendency of this is, that where used mach, a.nd in passing large materials between the rollers, the pressure is so great that the roller whioh is not turned by the erank Will rennain stationary, and consequently the strain will be so great upon the orank-roller that the rubber will be loosened 0r stripped from the shaft, whereas if both the rollers were turned by the direct action of the orank the rollers would be re- 1ieved from this undue strain and remove the liability of the rolls strippin g orturning up0n the shaf't.

I am aware that intermediate compensatinggear has long been in coxmnon use in planingmachines, carding-machines, grain-drills, and similar 1nechanism, und that the same has also been used in oombination with the rollers 0f a clothes-wringer, as shown in the patent of O. H. Packard, September 8, 1863, and theref0re I d0 not ola-im either of them but What I elaim as my improvement, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The adj ustable arms H H and L L and gears G I J K, in combination with tl1e rollers B and C, when operating conjointly, as and for the purpose substantially as set f0rth.

REUBEN GIPSON.

Witnesses W. H. BURRIDGE, A. W. MOCLELLAND. 

